We Are Not AloneSample

A Prayer of Asking and Receiving

Jesus, thank you for the amazing way you came into this world and showed us the God-way to live. Sometimes I find it hard to believe it is for me. At other times it seems possible.

Jesus, I want to be confident about it, no longer doubting. So today I reach out and believe in you fully, holding nothing back – that your life and your death and your resurrection were for me, so personal yet for every person.

Please forgive my sins and my doubts and my unbelief. Jesus, I receive your forgiveness and a full measure of faith in you.

I also reach out to you today Holy Spirit. I want to live my life in partnership with you and have an impact in this world for good and for God. I give you all that I am and I claim the promises of Jesus who said you would be my Guide and Counsellor, my Comforter and Helper – the one who empowers and inspires my life.

In Jesus’ name, please fill me with your strength and wisdom and the courage I need to make a difference in this world and to be part of the ‘new’ you are creating. Holy Spirit, I receive you as you fill my life – my mind, my body, my spirit, my future – with your presence and power.

I pray I will live in full partnership with you and that my life will reflect the amazing love and power of God.

Amen.

(This prayer is an extract from Major Peter McGuigan’s 2022 book A New Day: Writing During the Pandemic on Relationships, Responsibility and Spiritual Renewal)